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Healing is a Choice Weekend is the place to come to take the next right step on your healing journey.  Look at the issues below and identify where your struggle is.  This weekend will help you understand your trigger points and stop the downward spiral that follows.  Register today or call 1-800-NEWLIFE (800-639-5433) to learn more about this weekend and how it can help you.

Abortion

  1. Do you struggle with the shame from having an abortion?
  2. Are you haunted by the questions of:
    1. Can God can ever forgive you?
    2. Can your child ever forgive you?
    3. Can you ever forgive yourself?
    4. Is healing really possible?
  3. Discover the lies that lead to abortion; walk through the grieving process and experience the healing God has for you

Anger

  1. Are you struggling with anger in your home – given to exasperation, explosive outbursts?
  2. Are there too many doors being slammed in your home?
  3. Do you shut down communication, withdraw and create a wall of silence around you?
  4. Do you continue to crush and control others with your anger?
  5. Do you worry your kids will look back on their childhood and remember you by your harsh words or your fits of rage?
  6. Do you want to discover the triggers can influence or fuel your anger?
  7. Do you want to find healthy ways to express and control your anger?

Boundaries

  1. Do you have trouble setting limits and still be a loving person?
  2. Do you have trouble saying no?
  3. Do you struggle with guilt and fear when you set boundaries?
  4. Are you tired of giving so much of yourself and finding no one appreciates you or even says thank you?
  5. Do you find you are surrounded by people who take and take and never give anything back?
  6. Do you ever feel – despite all your hard work – that you’re failing in every area of your life … at work … at home … with lifestyle?
  7. Is it difficult for you to hear “No” from people?
  8. Do you find people take advantage of you?
  9. Do you sometimes try to control or manipulate people when you don’t get what you want?
  10. Do you want to learn how to live your life more fully, speak truthfully and love more freely?
  11. Do you want to discover the tools that will help you regain control of your life?

Fear and Anxiety

  1. Is your life crippled because of your fear?
  2. Do your fears ever disable you and make you feel out of control?
  3. Do you want to move forward but find the worries or apprehensions are overwhelming and keeping you from taking the steps to your dreams?
  4. Are you saying, “What if,” to every life situation and operating out of your fear instead of the promise of God’s faithfulness?
  5. Do you want to understand your fears and the negative effects they have on your life?
  6. Do you want practical steps to separate healthy and unhealthy fears?
  7. Do you want to establish worry-free patterns that will release you from fear’s hold?

Depression

  1. Do you feel as though life is going on around you but you are just an observer?
  2. Are you detached from people who you once were close to?
  3. Has your sorrow overtaken your life?
  4. Are you consumed with feelings of gloom and/or despair?
  5. Are you struggling with your heart being numb and you feel hollow inside?
  6. Do you struggle with negative feelings and unhealthy beliefs that may have slowed you down or lock you up and keep you from moving forward?
  7. Do you want to regain a sense of hope, find the lost joy, and take the steps necessary for your heart to heal?

Forgiving the Unforgivable

  1. Do you have a terrible thing in your life that seems unforgivable?
  2. Do you feel that forgiveness isn’t fair?  That you are the one who’s been wronged and now you’re the one who has to forgive?
  3. Do you want to explore the roadblocks to forgiveness and common misconceptions about forgiveness and begin the process of letting your heart and soul heal?

Getting Unstuck

  1. Are you feeling overwhelmed with life?  Don’t know which way to turn?
  2. Were you under the impression that time heals all wounds?
  3. Have you ever felt like there wasn’t any hope for you or your current situation?
  4. Do you want to begin to sort through where you’re stuck so you can move forward with confidence?
  5. Do you find your dreams are continually derailed?  Do you struggle with patterns of attitudes, habits, or relationships that won’t allow you to move forward no matter how much you tell yourself you want to?

Grief

  1. Are you struggling with the experience of loss and loneliness and find the pain isn’t passing?  That your sadness has left your heart numb and you feel hollow inside?
  2. Has your sorrow overtaken your life?
  3. Do you feel resentful that your loved one is gone?
  4. Have there been a series of losses that have left you paralyzed?  Do you want to regain a sense of hope, find the lost joy, and take the steps necessary for your heart to heal?

Infidelity

  1. Has someone you loved and trusted introduced a world of pain into your life?
  2. As the result of betrayal, do you experience feelings of anger, bitterness, shame, hatred, deep sorrow, disgust, and the longing for everything wrong to be made right?
  3. Do you wish to hide in order to preserve some semblance of dignity and normalcy, but find the hurt is not healing through self-preserving efforts?
  4. Do you find yourself asking:
    1. How can I trust again?
    2. Is it possible to forgive?
    3. Should I try to or can we rebuild this marriage?
    4. What does God expect from me?
  5. How do I relate to my husband?
  6. What does it mean to forgive?
  7. How can I live faithfully and hopefully again?

Marriage

  1. Do you long for closeness and true intimacy that other couples seem to have?
  2. Have you tried to get close before but hit block walls?
  3. Do you and your spouse bring out the worst in each other?
  4. Is your relationship devoid of passion?
  5. Does conflict bring harsh words and hurt feelings?
  6. Does deep hurt and not feeling “in love” keep you from moving forward in your relationship with your spouse?
  7. Would you like to discover new tools to communicate in love and find joy in God’s good gift of marriage?
  8. Has your husband been to Every Man’s Battle Workshop and together you want to work on being given new direction, encouragement and skills to mend and heal your relationship? 

Self Worth and Confidence

  1. Do you feel that nothing you do matters?
  2. Do you have aspirations but feel incapable of achieving your goals?
  3. Do you have someone else’s “label” from painful names you have been called?
  4. Do you have difficulty expressing your “voice”? or feel like no one listens to you or what you have to say?
  5. Do you feel awkward or invisible?
  6. Do you portray yourself as being strong and tough, all the while feeling weak or unimportant?
  7. Are you wishing you could step out and be the self-confident person you believe God wants you to be – but you just don’t know how?

Surviving Sexual Abuse

  1. Has your heart known the pain of sexual abuse?
  2. Do you find that the wounds of abuse and the shame of this experience drive you to isolation?
  3. Would you like a safe and loving place to help you face the truth about the past and the resulting struggles of the present; a place where you can be honest with God and others; a place where you can learn to relate to other people and to yourself?
  4. Come and receive strength and courage to move forward on your healing journey.

Weight Loss

  1. Are you tired of being defined by your weight?  Have you been “feeding” a wound from a past relationship?
  2. Do you want to get off the yo-yo of weight-loss/weight-gain cycle?
  3. Do you want to discover why you eat the way you do?
  4. Do you want to shed the bad habits for good?  Would you like to gain information and motivation to help you achieve lasting results?

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If you’ve known the pain of isolation, neglect, or betrayal …experienced the disappointment of shattered dreams …tasted the bitter regret of wounding others, or are continually afflicted with issues like fear, perfectionism, or control, Healing is a Choice Weekend is the place to come.  Examine what roadblocks prevent you from experiencing healing or discover what decisions you need to make in order to open the door for healing in your life.  Call 1-800-NEWLIFE (800-639-5433) today or click here to register.